Re: Is it just me that is being picked on?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 09/28/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:59:18 GMT

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:57:10 GMT, Todd Knarr <tknarr@silverglass.org> wrote:
>
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc <KE%ab.247$vS.84@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> That is a joke question, right?
>
>> Maybe not, so here's one thing it could accomplish:
>
>> Myself and a LOT of other folks send mail that doesn't have their address
>> on it as the sole listing on the To: line straight to /dev/null.
>
> How about something where requiring addresses to be listed in the To:
> header would be a Very, Very, Horrendously Bad Thing?
>
> Think about a mailing list. This list is for a clinic to communicate
> information to people about something like HIV. Now, it'd be nice to
> _not_ have to send multiple copies to people at the same ISP, so you
> want to send it as one message with multiple recipients instead of
> multiple messages each with one recipient. At the same time you
> Do Not Want to list all of those addresses on the To: line because
> you don't want to advertise to everyone who signed up that So-And-So
> also subscribes (because So-And-So may not want it bantered around
> that he's worried he might have HIV just because he's curious about
> what's happening with it).
>
> Requiring addresses in the recipient headers would break the ability
> to keep recipients anonymous from each other.
>

I belong to lots of mailing lists. That was an over-simplification
of my mailbox-control strategy for the sake of a specific discussion that
you extracted from an excerpt extracted from another post.

At present I download the headers from the server and look for certain
strings (some of which are addresses) in the various headers.

The posts from the various mailing lists all have an identifiable address
in the Return-Path, Reply-To, or other headers.

I do not accept mail from strangers (people/orgs not on my passlist)
that do not have my address in the first position of the To.

I don't accept spam. Period. If YOU want to, then knock yourself out.

> --
> Glad you're mending, but next time, shoot first. Why should I have to tell
> that to a Sicilian?
> -- DonSideB, s.s.b.b 

-- 
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